He worked on it throughout the 1970s with Dennis Ritchie.
Richie and Thompson
Kenneth Thompson
He created the Unix operating system with Ken Thompson
Dennis Richie
To create a Free OS like the UNIX Operating System, They wanted to create a system that was like UNIX without all of the intellectual property issues that UNIX had. (UNIX was proprietary software).
Yes. UNIX is a computer operating system.
The principals were Richie and Thompson, along later with Kernighan (for C).
Yes, Unix is system software. It is a kind of operating system.
Unix came first; Linux is a clone of the Unix Operating System.
Unix is one of the oldest but still most popular Operating Systems. It was invented in 1969 at AT&T Bell Labs by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. All the contemporary operating systems of Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, AIX are variants of Unix.
In the legal sense, no. Unix is an operating system and has the components of an NOS (Network Operating System) but it not considered just a network operating system.
Sorry but for me the fathers of OS are Kenneth Lane Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, creators of UNIX Bill Gates